The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-12-12

ulc ilhluc OF Cnufch Is so great " ~
enough 10 tempt a man TO become n chris
tian TO get out Of their company. But in
all societies, religious and irreligious, the
tendency Is to excuse sin in proportion rs
IL is mammoth. Even John Milton, in his
Paradise Lost while he condemns
satan, gives such grand description OF
him YOU have hard work TO suppress your
admiration. Oh this straining out OF
small sins liks gnats, and this gulping
down great iniquities like camels.
This subject does not give the picture OF
one or two persons, but IL n gallery in
which thousands OF people may see their
likeness. For instance, all those people
who, while they would not rob their
neighbor OF a farthing, appropriate the
money and the treasure Of the pub
lie. 4 man has house TO sell and
he tells his customer il is
worth $4,000. Next day the asses
sor comes around, aud the owner says II is
worth $4,000. The government OF the
United States took of the tax from per-
sonal income, among other reasons because
81 few people would tell the truth, and
many man with an income OF hundreds
Of dollars day made statements which
seemed To imply he wis about to be
handed over TO the Oycrscer of the poor.
Careful 10 pay their passage from Liver
pool 10 York, yet smuggling in their sara
toga trunk ten silk dresses from Paris and
u half dozen watches from Geneva, swift
Zerland, telling the custom house officer on
the wharf: There is nothing in that trunk
but wearing apparel and putting s.
gold piece in his hand TO punctuate the
statement.
Described IN the text are all those who
are particular never 10 break the law OF
| grammar, and who want all their language
nm elegant specimen Of syntax, straining
out all the inaccuracies of speech with q
fine sieve of literary criticism, while
through their conversation 20 SANDER and
innuendo, and profanity and ialschood
| larger than whole caravan of camels
when they might better fracture every law
Of the language AMI shock intellectual
taste, aud better let every verb seek IN
vain for It's nominatiye, aud every noun
for its government, and every proposition
lose It's way In the sentence, aud adjeCtivcs
and participates and prononns get into d
grand riot worthy Of the Fourth ward on
election day, than 10 commit u moral in
accuracy. Better swallow Thousand
gnals than one camel.
'Snch persons are also described In th,
text who are very much alarmed about the
small faults Of others, and have no alarm
about their own great transgressiOns
There are in every community and In
every church watch dogs who feel called
upon To keep their eyce on Others and
growl. They arc full Of suspicious. They
wonder il that man IL not dishonest, II that
man IL not unclenn, II there h not some
thing wrong about the other man. They
are always the first 10 hear Of anything
wrong. Nultures are always the first "a
smell carton. They arc self appointed de-
tcctivcs lay this down IN rule with
out any exception, that those people who
have the most faults themselves are most
mcrcilcss In their watching of others.
From scalp Of head 10 sole OF foot they are
full ui iealonsicsand hypcrCriticisms. They
spend their life in hunting for musk-rats
and mudturtlcs instead oi hunting for
Rocky mountain eagles; always for some
thing mean instead Of something grand
They look at their ncighbors' impcricctions
through u microscope, and look at their
own impcricctions through telescope up.
side down. Twenty faults Of their own do
not hurt them as much NJ one fault Of
somebody else. Their ncighbors' impcr-
icciions irc like gnats, and they strlin
them ont; their own impcrfcctiuns arc like
camcl- aud they swallow them.
"lbut lest souic might think they escape
the scrutiny OF the text, have Ca tell YOU
that W. oil come under the divine satir'
when We make the questions Of time mOr'
prominent than the questions Of eternity.
Come, now, let ~ all 70 INTO the comics
sional Arc not all tempted to makc the
question. where shall live now greater
tiun the question, Whce shall live for
ever How shall g'i more dollars here?
greater than the question, How shall | lay
up treasures In heaven? the question, How
shall my my debts TO mani greater than
the question. How shall meet my obligi
| lions 10 God2 ihr question, How shall
| gein ihc worldf greater than the question
What Il ! lose my soulG the question, VII,
did God let sin come into the world
greater than the question, How shall | ~
Il cxiripalud from my nnturc2 the question
What shall do with the twenty, or forty
or seventy years OF my sublunar cXis
amer gphcr than the question, Wht
slial! du with the millions of cycles 4
my posi- Terrestrial existence? Time, ho'
small Il vi Eternity how vast u is' tn
former. morc insignificant In compiriso
with the latter than gnnt Is IN dgniiiclr
when compared with acnmcl. We dodgc
. the text. We said, That doesn't mea
, mc, aud that Doesn't mean me- aud vii
! ! "a runOu- bencNolcuUo We are giving Il
, whole sermon away.
, "lBut 1T IA III surrender Ia the chag
What nn ndo about things hcrc. VIII
/ poor preparation Tor u great eternity.
, though q minnow were larger than u b
, hcmolh. ns though % swallow took Will
I | cinuit than an alhllre, ~ though no
I dc Wrp taller than q Lebanon ccdar,
=. though u CUNT were gryaicr than q cam,
i ~ though minute were longer thWn
century, as though umo were highC
/ deeper broader than eternity. 80 u
. text which dashed with lightning Of "
IA az Christ uttered H. h followed 10y Il
crashing oi ihundru Il awful caiUsirupI
/. 90 thoso who make the questions at tir
|. grnaivr than the questions Ol tie iutuI
"A the ourbmiuf. oycrhn10wing future.
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